O papel das invasões francesas nas estratégias de reestruturação da defesa do Rio de Janeiro no século XVIII

• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Jorge Paulo Pereira dos
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/13431
• topic: French invasion; Rio de Janeiro; Eighteenth century; Fortification; Invasão francesa; Rio de Janeiro; Século XVIII; Geopolítica; Fortificação; CNPQ::CIENCIAS EXATAS E DA TERRA::GEOCIENCIAS

This work is part of the interface between geography, history and politics. Despite the extensive debate surrounding the Historical Geography and definition, as presented by Chris Philo (1996) when placing the impossibility of this area of expertise, as both geography and history are horizontal sciences, "the mystery of Historical Geography, "several studies have been performed in Geography, at least the last 20 years in Brazil, strengthening this entry research.The importance of Rio de Janeiro since the beginning of the sixteenth century is one of the strategic points in the South Atlantic On this occasion, the expeditions of Solis and Ferdinand Magellan back in the 1530s have used this point in the territory to take in water and rest before departing for the much coveted basin of the River Plate. In the preliminary analysis can be seen that the French invasion of 1710 and 1711 served as an important event for territorial control of Portuguese America. The bibliographic and documental research, as can be found throughout this thesis, also confirms the importance of these invasions in the most effective military control in the southern portion of the colony. This paper aims to show how these two French invasions impacted the organization of the defensive system of Rio de Janeiro and its hinterland, contributing to rethink the reorganization of the system. It is noteworthy that these French invasion had different impacts. The invasion of 1710, led by Duclerc was an event in which the Portuguese came out winners, preventing the French garrison to take and loot the city. While the invasion led Duguay in 1711, enjoyed success, seized the city and holding it hostage, demanding the payment of the Portuguese to reinstate the jurisdiction Lusitanian.